Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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